Viral AI Culture Amplifies Monoculture

AI systems can produce superficially convincing cultural artifacts that go viral despite lacking core structural or creative qualities, while publishers hide AI provenance by reusing human bylines. Combined with feedback loops in recommendation systems and payout incentives, this creates a shrinking range of visible culture and rewards shallow, repeatable formulas over genuine creativity. — This matters because it changes what counts as culture, alters incentives for creators and publishers, and erodes public trust in media authorship and artistic value.